Private Jet from Miami to Kamalame Cay

The flight goes to Andros Town, 167 statute miles east of the city and a touch over 145 nautical, and on a jet that is a short leg. The exact block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a web page.

What matters more here is that the flight costs so little of the day that the road and the boat at the far end still fall in the afternoon.

No. The cay is ninety six acres of private island with sand, trees and buildings on it and no runway of any kind. The jet lands at Andros Town on the east coast of Andros, then a car runs about twenty minutes north up the coast and a boat takes you across the channel. All three are booked together and arranged before you leave Florida.

By road and then by water. It is roughly twenty minutes north along the coast from the airfield at Fresh Creek to the dock at Staniard Creek, and a short crossing of the channel from there. Both are arranged with the flight rather than found on arrival, and both are timed to your landing rather than to anybody's schedule.

Because of the 167 miles before the car, and because this arrival has three parts. The Gulf Stream builds cloud and squalls through the afternoon, and that is what moves days over water like this.

A jet climbs above the layer and holds one altitude across, so an afternoon that would delay everything else is usually a non-event. Andros Town also carries 4,058 feet of paved runway and its own border desk, so there is no separate customs stop and no short strip to worry about in wind.

Andros Town, at Fresh Creek on the east coast, because it is the closest paved field to the dock the boat leaves from. San Andros in the north is the other option and carries the same border desk, but the drive from it is considerably longer.

Tell us where on the cay your party is staying when you send the dates and the field is picked around that rather than the other way round.

Miami has no single business airport, it has several, and the right one is the shortest ground leg from where your morning starts. The executive field north west of the city is the usual departure and is also where a return from the islands clears US customs.

Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach are possible too and have their own pages. Tell us where your party is actually staying and the airport is picked around that.

At Andros Town. The field at Fresh Creek is one of three ports of entry on Andros, so the border desk sits on the same ground the aircraft stops on and there is no separate customs airport to fly first.

The road and the boat after it are a domestic leg. The crew files the declaration from Florida and the US return before you leave, and your party carries a valid passport and nothing else.

Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you here, because a road and a boat come after the flight.

The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your day changes, since the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience. The car and the boat are booked against your arrival, so they move with it.

No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat assignment, no other party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight leaving without part of your group. The passenger list can also change up to shortly before the flight: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.

Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a jet does not change that. We take the passport details once at the enquiry and file for both sides before departure.

The arrival clears at Andros Town on the way in, so the road and the channel afterwards are domestic. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when.

Yes. The crossing takes a fraction of the day and the return hour stays movable while you are still on the cay, which is what separates a charter from the last boat of the evening.

The thing that decides a day trip here is the landing hour rather than the flight: a morning departure leaves the whole afternoon on the island instead of on the coast road.

The beach runs the length of the cay, and the Andros barrier reef lies about a mile off it, the third largest in the world at roughly 190 miles end to end, with the Tongue of the Ocean dropping to some six thousand feet right behind it.

Behind the island are the flats that make Andros the bonefishing capital of the world, and the national park south of Fresh Creek holds some of the island's 180-odd blue holes. Say what the day is for when you send the date.

Less often than on anything else we fly this route with, and that is the point of the aircraft. A jet operates above the layer that grounds the rest, and the paved runway at Andros Town takes conditions that close a short strip.

When the day does move, you are told as early as we know, and because the aircraft was held for your party it is a conversation rather than a queue for the next available seat. The channel crossing is the weather dependent part, and on a bad afternoon that is what gets rearranged rather than the flight.

Send the date, the number of guests, which airport suits your morning and the hour you would like to leave. Tell us whether the day ends on the sand or on the water, because that decides what waits at the dock. You get back what is free, what it costs, the boarding time and what is included, and nothing is held until you say so.

Yes, pets travel in the cabin with you. The one thing we ask is that you tell us at the enquiry, with the type of animal and its weight, so the seating and the load plan are right from the start.